Pilot Projects

Call for Pilot Projects 2027

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All PhD students of the CRC 1348 have the chance to apply for funding for innovative projects that they develop in collaboration with other students of the CRC. This fosters interaction among students, exchange of ideas, and guides the students towards creative and independent scientific work.

  • Submission deadline: November 30th, 2026
  • Project start: January 1st, 2027
  • Project duration: Up to 12 months
  • Funding: Up to 5,000 EUR per project

 

Further information on how to apply for a pilot project

Funded Pilot Projects

  • 2026

    • Employing Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Sensors for Monitoring Spatial Organization and Activities in Migrating Cells (Arzu Melsa Basaran, Erez Raz)
    • Mechanical regulation of the embryo-maternal immune tolerance at the implantation site (Shashank Jaitly, Kiet-Tuan Phong, Ivan Bedzhov, Kate Miroshnikova)
    • Exploring the cross-species mechanism of tricellular junction formation (Namitha Tharayil Jayalal, Annika Bianka Weber, Stefan Luschnig, Michael Krahn)
    • Investigation of Pma1-Mrh1 crystalline arrays using cryoET (Iryna Levkovych,Jorgaq Pata. Roland Wedlich-Söldner, Christos Gatsogiannis)
    • Divergent roles of YAP and TAZ in regulating mechanotransduction, Wnt-signaling and stem cell self-renewal (Elina Richter, Diya Manoj, Michael Krahn, Kate Miroshnikova)

  • 2025

    • Establishment of light-regulated membrane recruitment of Drosophila LKB1 to investigate the impact of protein localization on its kinase activity (Gina Wagener, Nivedha Veerasubramanian, Michael Krahn, Seraphine Wegner)
    • Quantification of neuronal migration dynamics in vivo (Anna Pawluchin, Sanjay Sunil Kumar, Milos Galic, Stefan Schulte-Merker)

  • 2024

    • Exploring Lipid Analog-Enhanced Nanodiscs for Improved Protein Stability and Affinity in CryoEM Studies (Nele Van Wyngaerden, Karthik Subramaniam Kalyankumar, Frank Glorius, Christos Gatsogiannis)

     

  • 2023

    • Light-regulated protein degradation of fly Nephrin to monitor slit diaphragm dynamics in Drosophila nephrocytes (Max Gass, Nivedha Veerasubramanian, Seraphine Wegner, Michael Krahn)

  • 2022

    • Shedding light on inter-organellar communication: An optogenetic approach to investigate organelle contact sites (Pascal Höhne, Nivedha Veerasubramanian, Maria Bohnert, Seraphine Wegner)
    • Optogenetic tool for manipulating cell-cell adhesion in cultured cells and in vivo (Thea Jacobs, Brice Nzigou Mombo, Seraphine Wegner, Stefan Luschnig)

     

  • 2020

    • Identifying regulators of late endosomal cholesterol homeostasis and post-endosomal trafficking routes using proximity proteomics (Jonas Goretzko, Anna Holthenrich, Ursula Rescher, Volker Gerke)
    • Biosensors to study membrane curvature stabilization during HPV16 endocytosis (Pia Brinkert, Mirsana Ebrahimkutty, Milos Galic, Mario Schelhaas)

  • 2019

    • Tools to investigate spatiotemporal kinase signaling in epithelial and neuronal polarity (Neele Wolterhoff, Sarah Borkowsky, Sebastian Rumpf, Michael Krahn)
    • Mutations in VE-PTP: Identification of a Novel Cause of Venous Malformations in 3D-Matrices (Denise Teber, Martin Weiß, Britta Trappmann, Dietmar Vestweber)
    • Exploring the interaction between tricellular occluding junctions (TCJs) and adherens junctions (AJs) and its possible role in epithelial polarization (Jone Isasti Sanchez, Yung Su Kim, Stefan Luschnig, Ivan Bedzhov)
    • A technique to visualize specific cell-surface heparan sulfate proteoglycans in vivo in Drosophila melanogaster (Kristina Ehring, Henrike Ohm, Kay Grobe, Christian Klämbt)